Insurance Support

Autism Home Support Services is currently in Network with APS Healthcare, Aetna, HPPO, Humana and United Behavioral Health (UBH) and is working with BCBS, DuPage Medical Group, Resurrection Health Systems,  and Cigna. We will assist you in being reimbursed by your insurance carrier for any eligible, covered benefit.

AHSS believes that parents of children with special needs have more than the usual responsibilities and challenges.

AHSS further believes that our clinicians, who have unique and specialized training, should spend their time serving the needs of children on the spectrum, and not dealing with the day-to-day issues of the healthcare insurance industry.

To that end AHSS has a team of insurance specialists who assist families in obtaining their maximum allowable benefits.

  • Dr. Henry Hollander, a member of our advisory board and former insurance industry executive sets our healthcare insurance policies in conjunction with other healthcare based board members and the management team.
  • Jan Hamilton is our Billing and Insurance Specialist. Jan’s first goal is to obtain coverage and benefit information so the family has a realistic assessment of the specific coverage for their child. Jan then continues to follow the progress of insurance payments to help ensure minimal delays in payment. Jan also coordinates the periodic requests from insurance companies for a summary of the progress that the child has made over a specific time frame. In this function Jan works directly with our BCBA’s to access our electronic record-keeping system that stores daily and weekly summaries of our clinicians progress with the child as well as bi-weekly and monthly team assessment meetings.

For more information on Illinois insurance coverage see the latest information on the autism mandate passed in 2008 Illinois Department of Insurance.  (Download PDF file)

2011 Update requires coverage up to $38,527 (Download IL Department of Insurance Memo)

AHSS supports advocacy efforts to improve insurance coverage for autism nationally such as those led by Autism Speaks. (click here)

Resources for advocating with your employer’s benefits department: